ANA\CALIFORNIA VIRTUAL BUSINESS MEETING RECAP
ANA\California represented nurses internationally, nationally, regionally, and statewide. From attending conferences across the United States to presenting as keynote speakers alongside healthcare professionals from Turkey and Ethiopia, we are always advocating for initiatives important to you. More locally, we continued our Listening Tour in San Diego and Fresno to identify barriers specific to those regions.
We advocated on numerous legislation, regulations, policies and campaigns. Here is a long list made short:
- Gov. Newsom's Executive Order N-39-20
- UC Health Religious Affiliation Option 1 Letter
- Racism as Public Health Crisis Statement
- Public Letter to the San Diego Chief of Police
- Sample Letter to Police Departments for Nurses
- Denouncing Violence Towards Public Health Officials Statement
- BRN Audit Public Statement
- National Eating Disorder Awareness Letter
- Letter Opposing the Closure of Martin Luther King Jr. OB/GYN Unit, Los Angeles
- Presidential Endorsement Response Statement
- AB 890 (Wood) NPs Scope of Practice
- AB 1544 (Gipson) Community Paramedicine / Alt. Destinations
- AB 2112 (Ramos) Suicide Prevention
- AB 2288 (Low) Nursing Schools: State of Emergency
- AB 2537 (Rodriguez) PPE: Healthcare Employees
- SB 1159 (Hill) Workers’ Comp: Essential Workers
- SB 1237 (Dodd) CNMs Scope of Practice
- Proposition 23
- Proposition 22
- Race to 200M Flu Vaccines
- PPE for Nurses
- Donated PPE to Nursing Homes
- "Who Do You Wear A Mask For?" #MaskUp Campaign
COVID-19 cancelled our always-sold-out Lobby Day... While hundreds of nurses missed out on the opportunity to network with legislators and fellow colleagues, we will hope 2021 will be different. And if not? We'll proceed like the old Mazda motto... Zoom, zoom.
Financially, the inability to host in-person events and other factors have increased our association's net income by 123%. We have also decreased our overall expenses by 2%. On the other hand, COVID-19 impacted our investment account, but marginally compared to other market indicators.
We'll also be moving into a new office in December, which will save us approximately $1,100 per month.
Over the past few months, we interviewed several California candidates for State Assembly and State Senate on topics important to nursing. However, our Endorsement Committee members failed to receive enough votes to extend our endorse any candidates.
We continue to invest in the future of healthcare and healthcare professionals by supporting students from high school all the way through to their DNP. Our Nursing Practice Director supported the Oakland-based FACES of the Future Coalition as well as continues to work with a DNP on researching registered nurses' delegation of tasks to certified nursing assistants. Furthermore, our Nursing Practice Director, Secretary, and Membership director helped contribute and edit the book,
"Beating the Coronavirus."
